General Characteristics

County (administration): Central Bohemia Region
District (town): Kutná Hora
Cadastre: Vrbčany
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1313, 13134
Geological region: Kutná Hora and Čáslav crystalline complexes
Technical object: guarry
ID : 1542

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Kutná Hora Crystalline. Abandoned and partly flooded quarry with metagranites of the Kutná Hora Group. Metagranites are light grey with muscovite and biotite. In southern part of this quarry a block of migmatized gneisses up to stromatitic migmatites occurs. Metagranites represent one of two main rock types of the Kutná Hora Group.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Kutná Hora and Svratka region - Kutná Hora crystalline complex
Stratigraphy: proterozoikum
Subject: petrology, structural geology
Geological phenomenon: characteristic rock
Genesis: magmatic, metamorphic (general metamorphism)
Rock: metagranite

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registered interesting geological localities
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: C - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a registration in the database of CGS
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Zelenka P. a kol. (2002): Vysvětlivky k základní geologické mapě ČR 1:25 000, list 13134- Český Brod. ČGS, Praha

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Štěpánek Petr,Mašek Jan,Holub Vlastimil,Martínek Karel,Zelenka Přemysl, 10.11.03
Updated by: Plíšek Antonín 12.11.04

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 1542 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-26]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/1542.

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